Top new questions this week:
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Consider the following minimal pair:
edere panem 'to eat (the) bread'
comedere panem 'to eat up the bread'
When a resultative prefix is present (e.g. com- in comedere), panem is necessarily understood ...
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What would be the proper Latin translation of:
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
The author of the quote is uncertain and, as far as I can see, it is not a proverb or a ...
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I answered a question a moment ago and I contemplated phrasing "hidden from you" as a te absconditum.
But then I realized that the pronoun could also be taken as an agent, rendering it "...
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Allen's Vox Latina, 2nd edition (1988) metions that there is occasional "poetic interchange" in Latin of syllabic [u] and non-syllabic [w], mentioning trisyllabic silua and disyllabic genva ...
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I'm wanting to write "I saw this and though of you" in latin, and am struggling with the "of you" section (I'm only a beginner)... Should this be "de +abl" or is there ...
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I notice that the genitive of unus can apparently be either the regular uni, or can also be unius.
Is this form, unius, just a completely irregular oddity, or is there some logical precedent for it? ...
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I take the following sentence from Fabules Faciles:
...hōc enim ūnō modō tantum scelus expiārī potuit
as "...only in this way could he atone for such a great crime." literally, "...
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Suppose I want to curse someone — I want to ask some gods or spirits to do evil upon a particular person.
(No, I'm not angry at any user of this site.)
How do I do this in Latin?
I am not ...
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I have only ever used English language settings for keyboards and Operating Systems. As I am starting to learn Greek, I would like to be able to easily type in it. What is the easiest way to enable ...
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The closest I can manage (uneducated) is "Prorsus Futui Est," but I suspect that's somewhat (if not completely) wrong.
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I'm wondering how to say "please" in Classical Latin like "please" as in "can I PLEASE have that?" or "PLEASE go away" or something like that.
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Many Classical Latin textbooks typeset their texts with (small and capital letters and) a broad selection of punctuation, like period ., comma ,, colon :, semicolon ;, exclamation mark !, question ...
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I saw this text carved at the foot of a statue in Klagenfurt, Austria:
I guess it's in Latin and Google translate gave me a sketchy translation.
But I don't get why some letters are capitalized? ...
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The Roman historians seem happy to mix history with myth with no discussion on the reliability of one's sources — or even a mention of the sources in the first place.
I would like to imagine ...
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I am looking for a good translation of the US army motto, which is:
This We'll Defend
There are three variants of translation I have found:
1
Haec protegimus
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Is nos mos vallo
3
Hoc defendam
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Salvete omnes,
As I've mentioned a couple times on here, I am working on adding macrons to a specific text, I can't really use an auto-macronizer (nor will I, or do I want to). But there is a bit of a ...
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